If you run into trouble, feel free to file github issues or ping me (@creationix) on freenode irc in #luvit.
On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 9:12 AM, Jonathan Swinney <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for the feedback! I will look into this. > > For our project it may be sufficient to use only luv and using that > without LuaJIT looks pretty straightforward to me. I'll certainly start by > getting that working and go from there. > > On Tuesday, July 14, 2015 at 12:38:47 PM UTC-5, Tim Caswell wrote: >> >> Assuming you do want full luvit, the biggest part is building a custom >> luvi that uses lua instead of luajit. This shouldn't be too hard. We've >> recently added features to lit itself to make working with custom luvi >> binaries much easier and even allows "cross compiling" where luvit is built >> using a custom luvi instead of the native one. >> >> After that you'll probably hit a few modules that assume the jit/ffi/bit >> libraries exist. All we use in jit is usually `jit.os` and `jit.arch` >> which can be polyfilled pretty easily. Luajit provides a portable version >> of it's bit library that can be included with normal lua. >> >> >> On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 9:45 AM, Tim Caswell <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> For such a constrained environment I would recommend just using luv >>> directly with Lua. It's a lower-level API, but has most the same >>> primitives. If you really want the full luvit layer, it can be done with >>> moderate work. >>> ------------------------------ >>> From: Jonathan Swinney >>> Sent: 7/14/2015 9:29 AM >>> To: [email protected] >>> Subject: Luvit without LuaJIT >>> >>> I'm working on an embedded platform running on a MIPS architecture. We >>> want to use Luvit but we haven't been able to get LuaJIT to work on our >>> platform because the MIPS chip we are using lacks an FPU. I would like to >>> try to get Luvit working without LuaJIT and with the standard Lua >>> implementation instead. I'm prepared to invest some time and energy into >>> this project, but I wanted to check first to see if there are any known >>> reasons why this won't work. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Jonathan >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "luvit" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "luvit" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "luvit" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
